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Book Malacqua

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicola Pugliese
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017-11-14
  • ISBN : 9781911508069
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Malacqua written by Nicola Pugliese and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published by Calvino--this long-suppressed novel of a city under deluge shows a darker Naples, on the verge of collapse

Book The Serpent Coiled in Naples

Download or read book The Serpent Coiled in Naples written by Marius Kociejowski and published by Haus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A travelogue revealing the hidden stories of Naples. In recent years Naples has become, for better or worse, the new destination in Italy. While many of its more unusual features are on display for all to see, the stories behind them remain largely hidden. In Marius Kociejowski’s portrait of this baffling city, the serpent can be many things: Vesuvius, the mafia-like Camorra, the outlying Phlegrean Fields (which, geologically speaking, constitute the second most dangerous area on the planet). It is all these things that have, at one time or another, put paid to the higher aspirations of Neapolitans themselves. Naples is simultaneously the city of light, sometimes blindingly so, and the city of darkness, although often the stuff of cliché. The boundary that separates death from life is porous in the extreme: the dead inhabit the world of the living and vice versa. The Serpent Coiled in Naples is a travelogue, a meditation on mortality, and much else besides.

Book Only in Naples

Download or read book Only in Naples written by Katherine Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the tradition of M.F.K. Fisher and Peter Mayle, this ... memoir follows American-born Katherine Wilson on her adventures abroad, where a three-month rite of passage in Naples turns into a permanent embrace of this boisterous city on the Mediterranean. It is all thanks to a surprising romance, a new passion for food, and a spirited woman who will become her mother-in-law--and teach her to laugh, to seize joy, and to love"--

Book Malacqua

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicola Pugliese
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Malacqua written by Nicola Pugliese and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Tiger and the Acrobat

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  • Author : Susanna Tamaro
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2017-11-02
  • ISBN : 1786072831
  • Pages : 176 pages

Download or read book The Tiger and the Acrobat written by Susanna Tamaro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INCLUDES SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED LINE DRAWINGS Little Tiger is not like other tigers. Not content to spend her days alone, roaming the snow forests of Siberia hunting prey, she prefers instead to ponder the ways of the world. One day, eager to discover her own place within it, she sets out on a remarkable journey to discover the secret of life, and to meet the creatures she has heard most about: humans. A moving tale of bravery and spirit, The Tiger and the Acrobat is a celebration of the power of friendship, and a testament to the courage it takes to be true to ourselves. 'This book is a beaut.' Cecelia Ahern, author of P.S. I Love You

Book Let Me Go

Download or read book Let Me Go written by Helga Schneider and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Helga Schneider was four, her mother, Traudi, abandoned her to pursue her career. In 1998, Helga received a letter asking her to visit Traudi, now 90-years old, before she dies. Mother and daughter have met only once after Traudi left, on a disastrous visit where Helga first learnt the terrible secret of her mother's past. Traudi was as an extermination guard in Auschwitz and Ravensbruck and was involved in Nazi 'medical' experiments on prisoners. She has never expressed even the slightest remorse for her actions, yet Helga still hopes that at this final meeting she will find some way to forgive her mother.

Book Sweet Days of Discipline

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  • Author : Fleur Jaeggy
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release : 2019-10-29
  • ISBN : 0811229041
  • Pages : 87 pages

Download or read book Sweet Days of Discipline written by Fleur Jaeggy and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy’s eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks’ consummate translation (with its “spare, haunting quality of a prose poem,” TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

Book The Twentieth Train

Download or read book The Twentieth Train written by Marion Schreiber and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 2005-02-11 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the publisher. Marion Schreiber's gripping book about the only Nazi death train in World War II to be ambushed draws on private documents, photographs, archive material, and police reports, as well as original research, including interviews with the surviving escapees. One day in April, 1943, resistance fighter Youra Livchitz, a young doctor, discovered the departure date of the next transport train and recruited two school friends to pull off one of the most daring rescues of the entire war. Equipped with only three pairs of pliers, a hurricane lamp covered in red paper, and a single pistol, the men ambushed the train, which was transporting 1,618 Jews to Auschwitz. These three lone men freed seventeen men and women before the German guards opened fire. Miraculously, by the time the convoy had reached the German border another 225 prisoners had managed to escape unharmed and found shelter with the locals. In a testament to the solidarity of the Belgians, no one was betrayed. No one, that is, except the three young rescuers, who were turned in by a double agent, imprisoned, and killed. Like Schindler's List, The Twentieth Train creates a vivid, moving portrait of heroism under impossible circumstances.

Book School s Out

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  • Author : Christophe Dufossé
  • Publisher : William Heinemann
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 346 pages

Download or read book School s Out written by Christophe Dufossé and published by William Heinemann. This book was released on 2006 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliant and surreal French thriller, a teacher commits suicide and a colleague takes over his class of strangely unsettling children. A novel that skates close to fantasy, it is also chillingly observant about our society and the children it produces.

Book In Search of an Impotent Man

Download or read book In Search of an Impotent Man written by Gaby Hauptmann and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: HAUPTMANN/IN SEARCH OF AN IMPOTENT

Book The End of the Ocean

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  • Author : Maja Lunde
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-01-14
  • ISBN : 0062951378
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The End of the Ocean written by Maja Lunde and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. Signe is haunted by memories of the love of her life, whom she’ll meet again soon. In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken Southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, they discover an ancient sailboat in a dried-out garden, miles away from the nearest shore. Signe’s sailboat. As David and Lou discover Signe’s personal effects, her long ago journey becomes inexorably linked to their own. An evocative tale of the search for love and connection, The End of the Ocean is a profoundly moving father daughter story of survival and a clarion call for climate action. Translated from the Norwegian by Diane Oatley

Book Malacqua

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  • Author : Nicola Pugliese
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2017
  • ISBN : 9781911508076
  • Pages : 124 pages

Download or read book Malacqua written by Nicola Pugliese and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empires between Islam and Christianity  1500 1800

Download or read book Empires between Islam and Christianity 1500 1800 written by Sanjay Subrahmanyam and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-12-27 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging consideration of early modern Muslim and Christian empires, covering the Iberian, Ottoman and Mughal worlds, including questions of political economy, images and representations, and historiography. Empires Between Islam and Christianity, 1500–1800 uses the innovative approach of “connected histories” to address a series of questions regarding the early modern world in the Indian Ocean, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic. The period between 1500 and 1800 was one of intense inter-imperial competition involving the Iberians, the Ottomans, the Mughals, the British, and other actors. Rather than understand these imperial entities separately, Sanjay Subrahmanyam reads their archives and texts together to show unexpected connections and refractions. He further proposes, in this set of closely argued studies, that these empires often borrowed from each other, or built their projects with knowledge of other competing visions of empire. The emphasis on connections is also crucial for an understanding of how a variety of genres of imperial and global history writing developed in the early modern world. The book moves creatively between political, economic, intellectual, and cultural themes to suggest a fresh geographical conception for the epoch. Sanjay Subrahmanyam is Distinguished Professor and Irving and Jean Stone Chair in the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of several books, including The Political Economy of Commerce: Southern India, 1500–1650.

Book The Suma Oriental of Tom   Pires

Download or read book The Suma Oriental of Tom Pires written by Armando Cortesão and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows on with continuous main pagination from Second Series 89. Translated by the editor from the Portuguese MS in the Bibliothèque de la Chambre des Deput Paris. Book VI of the Suma Oriental, together with a translation of Rodrigues' 'Book', the entire Portuguese texts, and a letter from Pires to King Manuel, 1516. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1944.

Book Auschwitz

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sybille Steinbacher
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2013-05-21
  • ISBN : 0062296191
  • Pages : 111 pages

Download or read book Auschwitz written by Sybille Steinbacher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the terrible heart of the modern age lies Auschwitz. In a total inversion of earlier hopes about the use of science and technology to improve, extend, and protect human life, Auschwitz manipulated the same systems to quite different ends. In Sybille Steinbacher's terse, powerful new book, the reader is led through the process by which something unthinkable to anyone on earth in the 1930s had become a sprawling, industrial reality during the course of the Second World War. How Auschwitz grew and mutated into an entire dreadful city, how both those who managed it and those who were killed by it came to be in Poland in the 1940s, and how it was allowed to happen, is something everyone needs to understand.

Book Colloquies on the simples   drugs of India

Download or read book Colloquies on the simples drugs of India written by Garcia de Orta and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annuario

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  • Author : Turin (Italy). Stazione chimico-agraria
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1966
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 766 pages

Download or read book Annuario written by Turin (Italy). Stazione chimico-agraria and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: